Chapter 538: Plan

When Wang Lu finished handling matters at Xinhai Technology and returned to the Cybertron Technology headquarters located in Nandu, half a month had already passed.

He spent half a month purging the management of this long-established domestic storage company.

The influence of the former Xinhai Technology shareholder family had been cleared away in a short period of time.

Of course, there was naturally a price to pay.

Because of the management turnover, many factories under Xinhai Technology had fallen into a state of suspension; over ninety percent of the workers had been on paid leave for half a month, and barring any accidents, they would have to remain on leave for at least another half month while waiting for the factory machinery and equipment to be upgraded.

It was also thanks to Sun Cheng not being short on money, plus the fact that the current main business of Cybertron Technology—storage equipment—was, in his plan, merely a stepping stone and a cash cow, that there were no major plans for layoffs.

With the acquisition of Xinhai Technology complete, the production problems for the original Cybertron Hard Drive were finally resolved.

As the group CEO, Wang Lu high-profilely hosted the press conference following the successful acquisition of Xinhai Technology by the 【Cybertron Technology Group】 subsidiary, 【Cybertron Storage Technology Co., Ltd.】.

The 【Cybertron Technology Group】 also managed to grab quite a bit of space on many domestic technology sections and even portal websites all at once.

Discussion and attention followed accordingly.

"... I remember just seeing Panda Weiyun being acquired by Cybertron Cloud Drive not long ago; it's only been a few days and another subsidiary has acquired Xinhai Technology. They really have money..."

"Mastering technology means having confidence; I reckon they must have secured investment... Cybertron's hard drives are still quite good, cheap, and durable..."

"... Xinhai Technology was acquired? Good news. I bought a 1T Xinhai hard drive two years ago, and it developed a Logic Bad Sector after two months. After sending it back for repairs, it broke completely after using it for another year or so..."

"... Xinhai's hard drives are indeed not great, but Cybertron's hard drives are beyond reproach... The 10T one I got after becoming a member of the cloud drive is incredibly smooth to use..."

"Cybertron Cloud Drive is truly conscientious, giving away hard drives when you become a member... The hard drive quality is also beyond reproach. I support Cybertron growing stronger and unifying the domestic storage market..."

"... Oh, is that the parent company of Cybertron Cloud Drive? The cloud drive is truly conscientious and doesn't block resources arbitrarily... The only regret is that the content saved in the cloud drive cannot be shared..."

"Be content, those above. Right now, Cybertron Cloud Drive is the most lenient in the country... It just doesn't allow sharing, isn't it great to use for yourself..."

Following 【Cybertron Technology】's acquisition of Xinhai Technology, once the equipment upgrades are complete, Xinhai Technology will begin to take over the production of Cybertron Hard Drive.

Sun Cheng will also gradually transfer other types of storage equipment-related technologies to Xinhai Technology one by one.

Although doing this will cause the production cost of the hard drives to be significantly higher than those produced at Base No. 1, compared to other products on the market, there is still a large profit margin.

The market share of Cybertron Cloud Drive within Xia Country also saw a multi-fold explosion following the turbulent events of this period.

By the second day of August, when the latest statistical report was delivered to Sun Cheng's office, the total dual-platform downloads of Cybertron Cloud Drive had reached over 87 million, with the ratio of PC to mobile users being approximately 6 to 4.

The company's backend data also showed that the total number of users with a cloud drive usage time exceeding one hour had already surpassed 64 million, among whom the number of users who had activated various membership services also exceeded the 10 million scale.

Regarding this data, everyone at 【Cybertron Technology】 was quite satisfied.

After successfully completing the data migration with Panda Weiyun, for a period of time, the number of users migrating from Weiyun to the cloud drive reached the scale of millions per day.

Precisely because of this, this technology enterprise, which had been established for less than half a year, was able to leapfrog to become the second-largest data storage service provider in the country, second only to Yibai Cloud Drive.

Moreover, unlike Yibai Cloud Drive, which focuses on online services, 【Cybertron Cloud Drive】 provides network storage services, and 【Cybertron Storage】 also has hard drive products; the revenue is much more stable and attractive than Yibai Cloud Drive, which relies solely on selling memberships and super memberships.

The company's prospects are promising, and the financial outlook is naturally bright as well.

Of course, Sun Cheng only learned a little about these things and then handed over the management and development of the two subsidiaries with good growth momentum to the new management team at the cloud drive side.

He did not appear at the press conference when acquiring Panda Weiyun, and for the acquisition of Xinhai Technology, Sun Cheng also left it to Wang Lu to handle.

He is becoming more and more like a boss now; apart from some financial reports and technical guidance for his subsidiaries, Sun Cheng basically does not interfere with management.

This is because Liu Nianyuan and others revealed to him that the Equipment Department had, in principle, approved the Level Two 【National Defense Military Product Contractor License】 that Sun Cheng had previously wanted to apply for.

However, it will still take time to complete the relevant review procedures, so for the next period of time, he spent most of his time and energy on his other two subsidiaries.

Sun Cheng intends to hand the soon-to-be-obtained Level Two License to another subsidiary under his banner—【Future Machinery Technology Co., Ltd.】.

According to his original plan, another Cybertron subsidiary, 【Advanced Software Technology Co., Ltd.】, is responsible for research in the field of artificial intelligence, with its main business being in the software sector.

Artificial intelligence can definitely be called one of the fields with the highest modern technological content; since countries and enterprises began to get involved at the end of the last century, progress has been very slow.

It was not until these past few years, with the emergence of a series of artificial intelligence products like Google's AlphaGo, Apple's Siri, and Microsoft's Xiaoice, that humanity seemed to have taken a big step forward in the field of artificial intelligence, but in reality, the prospects are still not optimistic.

Current artificial intelligence nominally uses the principle of 'deep learning', but if you really get down to it, it is actually still playing the same game of large database calculations as IBM's Deep Blue, which is using various data already entered into the database to perform extended calculations.

To date, no country or force has been able to create a logical computing architecture that possesses self-thinking in the true sense, which is why it has been so slow to give birth to the kind of artificial intelligence seen in film and television works that possesses self-thinking, self-learning, and self-creation.

Sun Cheng hopes that 【Advanced Software Technology Co., Ltd.】 can complete this Task in the future; he hopes that one day, he will be able to arm true intelligent robots into an army and bring them to the 【Transformers Universe】 to fight for him, in order to reverse his unfavorable situation when facing the Autobots and the Decepticon Legion.

Meanwhile, 【Future Machinery Technology Co., Ltd.】 is responsible for the fields of cutting-edge machinery and robots; what this subsidiary needs to do is to climb the technology to a sufficient height as much as possible before true artificial intelligence is born, so that it can manufacture more perfect bodies for intelligent robots in the future.

Since the 【Intelligent Machinery Laboratory】 has already been handed over to 【Future Machinery Technology Co., Ltd.】 for management, and believing that the government must have noticed this, Sun Cheng simply gave the soon-to-be-obtained Level Two License to Future Technology.

In this way, the first research topic for the 【Intelligent Machinery Laboratory】 also exists.

He had long since organized the relevant technology regarding semi-exoskeleton Mechanical Exoskeleton Armor, and as the premier science and engineering university in the country, Nanjing University of Technology possesses first-class domestic research strength in many fields such as machinery, microelectronics, and power.

Sun Cheng is not short on money; he was previously worried that the president, Shen Peiyuan, would not be diligent and that the strength of some professors and researchers from Nanjing University of Technology he helped introduce would be uneven.

But with the Level Two military license and the attention from the government, he should be able to recruit some truly capable experts.